Busy enough to keep out of trouble

We're coming up on the anniversaries now -- a year since the doctors discovered fluid in Mike's abdomen, a year since the test results came back positive, a year since we tried chemo again, a year since it failed and Mike came home with me to spend his final days.

A year since he died.

Sometimes I can still hear his voice or sense his presence.

I stay busy to stay sane.

Life o' Mike is keeping me hopping. In the coming week I'll meet with our congressman, Heath Shuler about health care and his view on how we expand it to include all Americans. I'll try to convince him we can afford it -- in fact, we can't afford not to.

Then, next Saturday, we have the benefit rock concert at the Rocket Club in West Asheville (8 p.m., and the Rocket Club is at 401 Haywood Road and tickets are $10 at the door).

I ordered our first 100 T-shirts today. Black with white print.They'll sell for $15.




When April 1 rolls around, a few friends and family members and I will dress in plaid flannel pajama bottoms and Life o' Mike T-shirts and scatter his ashes. Then we'll visit a bit and remember Mike, and maybe cook a stupendous dinner that would be good enough for the food snob himself.

Then it's back to fighting for health care for all Americans.